Hi All,
I'm Peter Dietz, developer at the Ohio State University Libraries.
I made my first customizations to DSpace code in Fall 2009, and had lots of
questions that people on both the mailing lists and the IRC were able to
help me out.
Since then, I've become the Release Coordinator for 1.7. The goals of 1.7
were to have a stable and on-schedule release with a nice balance of
features. I stretched a few of the deadlines for development so that we
could fit as many bug fixes in as possible, as well as getting some
important features included. We've also performed extensive testing of the
software before release, and minimized bug introduction by adding a code
testing server. I'll also be doing a webcast next week to give an
introduction to the new features of DSpace 1.7.
At my University our team is busy working on our switchover to XMLUI, which
includes look-and-feel improvements (images, image gallery) -- see
screenshots at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibrariesDSpaceDesigns#, as well as
many back-end improvements (proxy-license bundle, iTunes Podcast support).
After the XMLUI project we'll upgrade our development environment to 1.7,
and work on making better use of the SOLR statistics system (top items /
bitstreams per collection). I've already backported some of my favorite
features of 1.7 to our 1.6 system (Mirage theme, bitstream ordering).
What I'm looking for from the community is an increased interest, feedback,
and participation in side projects. Such as getting active community
developed themes, curation tasks, and other plugins. Getting involved is
actually much easier than one might think, especially since developers love
feedback on projects, and are generally pretty helpful.
Peter Dietz
Systems Developer/Engineer
Ohio State University Libraries
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, George Stanley Kozak <[email protected]>wrote:
> Alice, et al.:
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> I am George Kozak, Digital Library Specialist at the Cornell University
> Library. Our repository launched in 2002. We are running DSpace 1.6.2 on a
> Sun T-series Server.
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> We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer.
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> George Kozak
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> Digital Library Specialist
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> Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT)
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> 501 Olin Library
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> Cornell University
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> Ithaca, NY 14853
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> 607-255-8924
>
>
>
> *From:* Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:59 AM
>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions
>
>
>
> Welcome to the first DSpace Online Discussion! Today we will talk about
> DSpace 1.7: is it on your roadmap? Why or why not?
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>
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> This discussion will take place today and tomorrow. It will end at 6 p.m.
> Eastern Standard Time tomorrow evening. After the discussion, I will provide
> a summary of what was discussed.
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>
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> I expect the discussion will branch into other topics. This is encouraged!
> Please feel free to respond to any aspect of the discussion that interests
> you.
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>
> I'd like to begin the discussion by introducing ourselves. Please state who
> you are, the version of DSpace you are running, what platform you are on,
> and when you started using DSpace. Then let us know: are you planning to
> upgrade to DSpace 1.7 in the next six months, or have you upgraded already?
>
>
>
> I will start:
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> I am Alice Platt, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Southern New Hampshire
> University. Our repository launched in May 2010. We are running DSpace 1.5.2
> on Windows.
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>
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> We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer.
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>
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> Alice Platt
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> Digital Initiatives Librarian
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> Shapiro Library
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> Southern New Hampshire University
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> 2500 North River Rd
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> Manchester, NH 03106
>
> USA
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> 603-668-2211 x 2156
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> *Visit the SNHU Academic Archive at http://academicarchive.snhu.edu*
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